Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Turkey

Whatever it was before the farce that has been described as an attempted coup, today it is clearly a dictatorship in all but name. The United States needs to start rethinking our relationship with that country. I am assuming EU membership no longer rates serious discussion. But Turkey is still part of NATO. Is this a country that Americans should be prepared to die for?

4 comments:

Given the US's historical and present bedfellows (Saudis, Suharto, Saddam, Samoza, Stalin... and those are just the S's), I think you might do well to think of another reason besides "dictatorship" for wanting to give Erdogan the left foot of fellowship-- not that there aren't plenty of other perfectly valid excuses.

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